Most people believe in luck—good or bad—but they don’t always believe in fate. What they cannot realize is that fate and luck are the same thing—the difference is your perspective.
Imagine being blindfolded and sitting on a calm animal. By the spread of your legs, you might guess it’s a pony or maybe a steer, since all you can hear is the sound of the crowd.
In a split second, they remove the blindfold, sound the claxon, cinch the flank strap, and open the chute—you’re on a bull that blames you for everything and wants to kill you!
You have two options. If you think it’s just bad luck, you can simply let go, get booed—and hope you don’t die. If you think it’s a test of fate—hang on for your life—and hope you don’t die.
With either choice, death is a possibility—if you can manage eight seconds, people will cheer you, support you and maybe tell stories about you. Even if you fail after a few seconds, they will respect you simply because you tried…
Death is inevitable—your perspective determines the story that gets written on your epitaph.